Please use this locator tool to determine if Garth Webb S.S. (GWSS) is the correct school based on your home address. If you are within the GWSS school boundary, please review the following information to determine whether or not your registration can be completed by the school or if it has to be completed at the HDSB Welcome Centre.
You must contact the Welcome Centre to register for school if your student is:
• Entering the Ontario school system for the first time, and whose first language is not English (or is a variety of English)*
• Entering with an International Student Visa (or any Visa including Visitor Visa)
• Entering with a Work Permit or a Study Permit (student and/or parent/guardian holds the permit)
• Entering as a Refugee Claimant, a Convention Refugee, or a Protected Person
• Entering with their Permanent Residence application in process
• Entering from a French language school in a French language school board (if first language is not English)
• Re-entering Ontario after an absence of a year or more (if first language is not English)
* where student is a Canadian citizen, Permanent Resident, or Refugee Claimant
If your student meets any of the above criteria, please contact the Welcome Centre using this form to make an appointment to complete your registration.
If your student does not meet any of the above criteria, please proceed to the next step to continue the registration process with the school.
Note: Registration will occur directly from school to school for all Grade 8 students attending a Garth Webb feeder school (Emily Carr, Captain R. Wilson, Palermo, Heritage Glen, West Oak, and Ecole Forest Trail).
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